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WANT TO HEAR some Walking Dead universe secrets? Well, chief content officer Scott M. Gimple—who knows all after being promoted in 2018 from TWD showrunner to overseer of the franchise—isn’t giving anything away! But during his tenure, the 50-year-ol

TOTAL DARKNESS envelops the Senoia, Georgia, soundstage housing The Walking Dead’s grandiose prison set. It’s an unspoken rule to always be mindful where you step, as one can easily trip over life-size zombie dummies sprawled on the floor. The weathe

WELCOME TO THE beginning of the end of the world. Tucked away within eastern Los Angeles, where the 5 and the 10 freeways merge, is the community of El Sereno. Often overshadowed by the nearby downtown skyscrapers and the glittery star power of Holly

IT’S YET ANOTHER 90-degree September afternoon outside Atlanta, Georgia, and the cast members of The Walking Dead are taking turns trying to put into words how it feels to be filming without Andrew Lincoln, ex–sheriff’s deputy and de facto leader Ric

SCHOOLWORK. BFFS. REBELLION. AMC’s latest Walking Dead spinoff is a coming-of-age tale à la the ’80s flick Stand by Me—except for those “empties” (local lingo for walkers) who want to eat human flesh. World Beyond takes a different approach than its

Lincoln wrapped shooting in late June, but to the rest of the tight-knit cast, that farewell could have been yesterday. McBride still feels his presence, saying with a hint of sadness, “Everything we do just has Rick all over it.” She jokes that the

TO ANY OUTSIDER setting foot on the Griffin, Georgia, set of The Walking Dead, the sense of heightened security and secrecy is immediately apparent. Production assistants string giant tarps across the entrance to a small alley, shielding any on-camer

THOSE WERE THE WORDS of advice imparted by a bleeding-out Morgan Jones (Lennie James) at the end of Fear the Walking Dead’s Season 5 finale. The former leader lost his fellow survivors to the series’ gun-totin’ big bad Virginia (Colby Minifie) and th

IN A WORLD where the dead outnumber the living, it’s no surprise that beloved characters have come and gone on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead. Whether they were killed by the flesh-eating infected or the true threat—other desperate surviv

THE WAR AGAINST the creepy Whisperers cult may finally be over, but AMC’s zombie drama The Walking Dead taught us a long time ago that lowering your guard is never a good idea. The series-ending Season 11 (consisting of 24 episodes broken up into thr

THE THRILLING sixth season of Fear the Walking Dead ended with a—literal—bang. And the 10 nuclear warheads that doomsday cult leader Teddy Maddox (John Glover) unleashed across the state of Texas in the last episode have altered the fabric of the sho

THE UNDEAD HERE are known as “empties,” but World Beyond’s second and final season is chock-full of answers. Mostly about the Civic Republic Military (CRM), the shadowy cabal that’s already gotten its hands on The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes (Andrew L

A PAIR OF beloved TWDU heroes will soon be heading back into action—side by side. After The Walking Dead’s 11th and final season signs off, a sequel planned for 2023 will star deeply bonded zombie apocalypse survivors Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride)

Rick is shot and comatose. After suffering multiple gunshot wounds, sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln, far right, with Jon Bernthal’s Shane Walsh) goes into a coma in a King County, Georgia, hospital. Meanwhile, strange reports of unrest a

(Season 3, Episode 12) Before aikido stick–wielding survivor Morgan Jones (Lennie James) showed up in Alexandria, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) stumbled upon his old friend (they met in the pilot)—and found him writing on walls, obsessed with “clearin

From @TWDBrasil: For Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Melissa McBride (Carol)—which season did you enjoy filming the most and why? McBride: There’s something about all of them that we miss. I think the first season will always be the most special because it

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THE FANS OF THE WALKING Dead Universe (TWDU, for short) are some of the liveliest out there. And that’s really saying something. It’s been over 10 years since AMC’s intense zombie-apocalypse drama—based on the striking comics written by Robert Kirkma

BEFORE AMC’S THE WALKING DEAD premiered on October 31, 2010, the end of the world as we know it had never looked so terrifying, gory or gruesome. Eleven years and more than 150 heart-pounding installments later, The Walking Dead is still a frightenin